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As a Healthcare Assistant within our Out of Hours community nursing team you will be working 2 nights per week between 18.00 - 22.30, where you will work in pairs with a Community Nurse Team Leader, responding to calls overnight and visiting patients in their own homes.

This role offers you the flexibility to work on days that suits you and the chance to work additional hours.

Our work is crucial to the community as we aim to prevent unnecessary hospital submissions and care for people in their hoes with a range of conditions including wide range of conditions including diabetes, wound and end of life care.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• To assist in providing nursing care as delegated by the Senior Sister/Team Sister within patient’s homes.
• To maintain knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to deliver a quality service that is responsive to the changing needs of patients.
• To deliver care in accordance with organisation policies, procedures and guidelines, according to competencies, as delegated by the Senior Sister/Team Sister
• To report any changes in condition of the patient to the Senior Sister/Team Sister or in their absence the designated nurse in charge of the caseload.

Ideally you will have previous experience of working within a care setting and be a naturally empathetic individual, with the ability to build strong relationships with service users and their families, as our aim is to deliver positive experiences to patients at every stage of their healthcare journey.

As this is a community role, it is essential that you have a valid UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes.

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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As a Healthcare Assistant, you’ll be part of our valued team at St Martin's Hospital, Bath.

You will feel valued as a Healthcare Assistant within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• A salary between £22,000-23,500 (pro-rated to hours worked) with access to our group pension
• Free tea and coffee at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission